Mimetic Constitutive Rules

This paper deals with the question of how constitutive rules in Searle’s sense can be subject to definite constraints, or boundaries. Three kinds of boundaries to institutional constitution are here identified: ontological, structural, and pragmatic. All these kinds of boundaries to some extent dep...

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Main Author: Corrado Roversi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2016-11-01
Series:Phenomenology and Mind
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7081
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Summary:This paper deals with the question of how constitutive rules in Searle’s sense can be subject to definite constraints, or boundaries. Three kinds of boundaries to institutional constitution are here identified: ontological, structural, and pragmatic. All these kinds of boundaries to some extent depend on the context of the broader social practice for which rule-constituted institutions are created. Further, the paper introduces a fourth kind of boundaries, called “mimetic”, which limit the process of institutional constitution according to a pre-existing social or natural reality that the institution is meant to imitate.
ISSN:2280-7853
2239-4028